I’ve made it to Maryland and have successfully completed my busiest day of interviews (3). One of the places was 167% not what I was looking for, and it really shocked me, because talking with them and looking at their website gave me a completely different impression than what I got when I wa...

If you are currently in the market for a job, which I am, you may find that some companies and agencies will only allow you to access their online job application and job search system through Window’s Internet Explorer.  I ran into this when trying to access the Texas Health and Human Services w...

Let’s say you get fired, or laid off, or you quit because after two weeks you know you’re at the worst company on the planet. In all of those cases, you will face the interview question: What happened at your last job? Here’s the answer you should always give: “I left to do x.� And you fil...

The end of my senior year is almost here and there’s still so much left for me to do… I really need to sit down and write out a schedule for when I need to have things done other than their actual due dates since most of them are so close to one another. Time management… I need to ...

The two most important things to look for when shopping for a new apartment on Craigslist are price and location. PadMapper maps Craigslist's apartment listings on a Google Map for an at-a-glance look at available offerings. Previously mentioned MapsKrieg covers the same basic territory, but PadMapp...

For some reason I didn't notice until just now that the Portland Zoo insect keeper job is a temporary (May-September) position only. It would be idiotic to leave my wife for a year for a temporary job (considering that it would be pretty hard to get another one at the end of it) so I'm going to let ...

Yesterday at the 15th Annual Stanford University Accel Symposium, I heard an energizing talk with Chris Hughes, Facebook, and Architect of Obama’s Digital Campaign Strategies, and Matthew Barzun, National Finance Team for Obama and Former Chief Strategy Officer, CNET Networks, Inc. on “Techn...

Things have been so hectic, it hadn’t dawned on me that I hadn’t posted in a while until this afternoon. I had originally planned to post some things this passed weekend, but my headaches from Hades had other plans in mind. I’m just now catching up on last week’s and this wee...

Filed under: North America, United States, Budget Travel, News, Travel Deals Vacation plans are changing. This isn't exactly a surprise. With layoffs mounting and a careful eye trained on every expense, long vacations are becoming short, and short trips aren't straying as far from home. For some des...

On Friday, Julie had to put down the little chick suffering from pasty butt. She wasn't getting any better, and was suffering a lot. So Julie researched how to do it as painlessly as possible, then did what she had......